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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 100 (search)

cina, however, being
with the army in person, and consequently having greater influence,
pretended that this plan had been changed, that so the gathering forces of
the enemy might be met with their whole strength. Orders were therefore
given to the legions to advance with all speed upon Cremona, while a portion of the force was to proceed to
Hostilia. Cæcina himself turned aside to Ravenna, on the pretext that he wished to address the
fleet. Soon, however, he sought the retirement of Patavium, there to concert his treachery. Lucilius
Bassus, who had been promoted by Vitellius from the command of a squadron of
cavalry to be admiral of the fleets at Ravenna and
Misenum, failing immediately to obtain the command
of the Prætorian Guard, sought to gratify his unreasonable resentment
by an atrocious act of perfidy. It cannot be certainly known whether he
carried Cæcina with him, or whether (as is often the case with bad
men, that they are like each other) both were actuated by

Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 6 (search)

ero he had calumniated
Corbulo's high qualities. The favour thus infamously acquired made him a
centurion of the first rank, yet the ill-gotten prosperity of the moment
afterwards turned to his destruction. Primus and Varus, having occupied Aquileia, were joyfully welcomed in the neighbourhood,
and in the towns of Opitergium and Altinum. At Altinum a force was
left to oppose the Ravenna fleet, the defection of
which from Vitellius was not yet known. They next attached to their party
Patavium and Ateste. There
they learnt that three cohorts, belonging to Vitellius, and the Sebonian
Horse had taken up a position at the Forum Alieni, where they had thrown a
bridge across the river. It was determined to seize the opportunity of
attacking this force, unprepared as it was; for this fact had likewise been
communicated. Coming upon them at dawn, they killed many before they could
arm. Orders had been given to slay but few, and to constrain the rest by
fear to transfer their alle

Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 7 (search)

When this success
became known, two legions, the seventh (Galba's) and the eighteenth (the
Gemina), finding the campaign opening in favour of the Flavianists, repaired
with alacrity to Patavium under the command of
Vedius Aquila the legate. A few days were there taken for rest, and Minucius
Justus, prefect of the camp in the 7th legion, who ruled with more
strictness than a civil war will permit, was withdrawn from the exasperated
soldiery, and sent to Ves-
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pasian. An act that had been long desired
was taken by a flattering construction for more than it was worth, when
Antonius gave orders that the statues of Galba, which had been thrown down
during the troubles of the times, should be restored in all the towns. It
would, he supposed, reflect honour on the cause, if it were thought that
they had been friendly to Galba's rule, and that his party was again rising
into strength.

Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 11 (search)

called how they had aided the vengeance of
the Pannonian army, while the soldiers of Pannonia,
as if they were absolved by the mutiny of others, took a delight in
repeating their fault. They hastened to the gardens in which Saturninus was
passing his time, and it was not the efforts of Primus Antonius, Aponianus,
and Messalla, though they exerted themselves to the uttermost, that saved
him, so much as the obscurity of the hiding-place in which he concealed
himself, for he was hidden in the furnace of some baths that happened to be
out of use. In a short time he gave up his lictors, and retired to Patavium. After the departure of the two men of consular
rank, all power and authority over the two armies centred in Antonius alone,
his colleagues giving way to him, and the soldiers being strongly biassed in
his favour. There were those who believed that both these mutinies were set
on foot by the intrigues of Antonius, in order that he might engross all the
prizes of the war.